Vanessa Mateus, PhD in Pharmacy, is Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon. Integrated Researcher at iMed.ULisboa and Collaborating Researcher at H&TRC. Background in nonclinical studies in vivo, mainly on experimental animal models of disease in local and systemic inflammation (e.g. acute and chronic colitis, cancer-associated colitis, and periodontitis). Currently, she is the principal investigator of some funded projects with over 30 full papers in international peer-reviewed journals (with more than 550 citations), over 30 communications in national and international congresses, and acts as a reviewer of international peer-reviewed journals in the area of Pharmacology and and Pharmacotherapy.